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INDUSTRIAL NOTES FROM THE DOMINION LABOR GAZETTE
[Welland Telegraph, 14 June 1910]
Fort Erie- Contracts were let for the new waterworks system. An addition of seventy-five rooms was being made to a summer hotel.
Niagara-on-the-Lake- The militia training camp will open on June 7, Navigation and the fruit season will commence a little earlier. A busy summer is expected.
Port Colborne- Work went forward on the new flour mill. The section of the mill now being built will have the largest capacity of any mill in Canada, with one exception. It will turn out six thousand barrels of flour per day, grinding thirty thousand bushels of wheat. The storage capacity will be two hundred and fifty thousand bags of flour, and the elevator will hold a million bushels of wheat. Provision is made in the foundations for doubling the capacity of the mill.
Welland- The Dain Agricultural Implements Works commenced work with sixty employees. A rail-joint shop was added to the Ontario Iron & Steel Company’s plant. A large number of foreign laborers arrived for employment in different works. Building trades were active, many dwellings being in course of erection.
Dunnville- The ratepayers voted on the three by-laws-To loan thirty thousand dollars to the promoters of an industry for the manufacture of auto parts, furnaces, shovels and other articles; to grant a fixed assessment of twenty-five thousand dollars and free water for ten years to the Dominion Hammock Manufacturing Company, and to spend thirty thousand dollars for a new high school building. All three were carried to large majorities.
Merritton- All the mills and factories were running full time, with conditions of employment good.
Thorold- Favorable conditions prevailed in the labor market; the supply and demand being about equal. Thorold will have a new pulp and paper factory. The factory will be in operation in July or August.
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